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COVID-19 AND LIBERALISM On the other hand, devising a liberal response to COVID-19 by no means mandates the disastrous “ mitigation strategy ” that has been attempted—and often subsequently abandoned —by some governments. Being a liberal during a crisis doesn’t—and mustn’t—mean dooming 60 — 70 percent of your population to near-guaranteedinfection.
EREC SMITH – QUILLETTE Towards Practical Empowerment. Published by Erec Smith. The following critique of anti-racism is intended to empower people of color and stave off the modes of disempowerment I see in my field of rhetorical studies. Rhetorical studies examines persuasion in all its forms, but just like everyone else, rhetoricians have a hard time communicating WHEN SONS BECOME DAUGHTERS: PARENTS OF TRANSITIONING BOYS What follows is the introductory instalment of When Sons Become Daughters, a multi-part Quillette series that explores how parents react when a son announces he wants to be a girl—and explains why so many of these mothers and fathers believe they can’t discuss their fears and concerns with their own children, therapists, doctors, friends, and relatives.JORDAN PETERSON
Published by Jordan Peterson. I had a client many years ago who was a real-life version of Sleeping Beauty. She was tall, blonde-haired, razor thin (as the saying goes), and profoundly unhappy. She was enrolled in a local junior college, attempting to upgrade so that she could attend university. She came to see me because she did not wantto live.
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Published by Lama Abu Odeh. Sandra Sellers, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Law Center, was forced to resign because she was caught on video saying to her colleague and co-teacher David Batson: “I hate to say this. I ended up having this, you know, angst every semester that a lot of my lower ones are blacks. THE CAMPAIGN OF LIES AGAINST JOURNALIST JESSE SINGAL—AND The Campaign of Lies Against Journalist Jesse Singal—And Why It Matters. written by Jonathan Kay. One of the odd-seeming aspects of progressive cancel culture is that many of the figures targeted by mobs aren’t especially conservative in their views. Rather, the victims tend to be heterodox liberals who simply offer a dissentingopinion on
THE RANKS OF GENDER DETRANSITIONERS ARE GROWING. WE NEED A recent NBC News report warned that media coverage of detransitioners—formerly transgender individuals seeking to return to the gender associated with their biological sex—is misleading and potentially harmful. “No one disputes that transition regret does exist,” author Liam Knox writes. “However, trans advocates say some of the recent coverage around the topic portrays QUILLETTE – FREE THOUGHT LIVESABOUTDONATEFREE THOUGHT LIVESUBSCRIBE Portland, Oregon, has been the most politically violent city in the United States since Donald Trump was elected in 2016. Just a few days after the result, a peaceful protest against the incoming president turned into a riot when anarchists broke off from the main group and rampaged through the Pearl District, a renovated SoHo-like neighborhood adjacent to downtown packed with art galleries ANGUS FOX – QUILLETTE Published by Angus Fox. What follows is the second instalment of When Sons Become Daughters, a multi-part Quillette series that explores how parents react when a son announces he wants to be a girl—and explains why so many of these mothers and fathers believe they can’t discuss their fears and concerns with their own children, therapists LITERATURE – QUILLETTE Suddenly, time-loop stories seem to be everywhere. This month Hulu began streaming director Joe Carnahan’s new sci-fi action film Boss Level, the tale of a soldier in the near future who wakes up every morning only to relive the day of his death. Carnahan has describedthe film as
COVID-19 AND LIBERALISM On the other hand, devising a liberal response to COVID-19 by no means mandates the disastrous “ mitigation strategy ” that has been attempted—and often subsequently abandoned —by some governments. Being a liberal during a crisis doesn’t—and mustn’t—mean dooming 60 — 70 percent of your population to near-guaranteedinfection.
EREC SMITH – QUILLETTE Towards Practical Empowerment. Published by Erec Smith. The following critique of anti-racism is intended to empower people of color and stave off the modes of disempowerment I see in my field of rhetorical studies. Rhetorical studies examines persuasion in all its forms, but just like everyone else, rhetoricians have a hard time communicating WHEN SONS BECOME DAUGHTERS: PARENTS OF TRANSITIONING BOYS What follows is the introductory instalment of When Sons Become Daughters, a multi-part Quillette series that explores how parents react when a son announces he wants to be a girl—and explains why so many of these mothers and fathers believe they can’t discuss their fears and concerns with their own children, therapists, doctors, friends, and relatives.JORDAN PETERSON
Published by Jordan Peterson. I had a client many years ago who was a real-life version of Sleeping Beauty. She was tall, blonde-haired, razor thin (as the saying goes), and profoundly unhappy. She was enrolled in a local junior college, attempting to upgrade so that she could attend university. She came to see me because she did not wantto live.
LAMA ABU ODEH
Published by Lama Abu Odeh. Sandra Sellers, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Law Center, was forced to resign because she was caught on video saying to her colleague and co-teacher David Batson: “I hate to say this. I ended up having this, you know, angst every semester that a lot of my lower ones are blacks. THE CAMPAIGN OF LIES AGAINST JOURNALIST JESSE SINGAL—AND The Campaign of Lies Against Journalist Jesse Singal—And Why It Matters. written by Jonathan Kay. One of the odd-seeming aspects of progressive cancel culture is that many of the figures targeted by mobs aren’t especially conservative in their views. Rather, the victims tend to be heterodox liberals who simply offer a dissentingopinion on
THE RANKS OF GENDER DETRANSITIONERS ARE GROWING. WE NEED A recent NBC News report warned that media coverage of detransitioners—formerly transgender individuals seeking to return to the gender associated with their biological sex—is misleading and potentially harmful. “No one disputes that transition regret does exist,” author Liam Knox writes. “However, trans advocates say some of the recent coverage around the topic portrays LIVED EXPERIENCES AREN’T SPECIAL Some time ago I found myself in the middle of a discussion about race relations and minority experiences. When it was my chance to speak, I mentioned some statistical data that appeared to challenge the common narrative that racism is widespread and LESBIANS AREN’T ATTRACTED TO A FEMALE ‘GENDER IDENTITY This is assumed to have consequences for sexual-orientation concepts such as gay, straight, lesbian, and so on. A “lesbian” is now understood as anyone with a female gender identity attracted to others with female gender identities. This can include biological males as lesbians, as long as they have a female gender identity. WHEN SONS BECOME DAUGHTERS, PART IV: PARENTS OF What follows is the fourth instalment of When Sons Become Daughters, a multi-part Quillette series that explores how parents react when a son announces he wants to be a girl—and explains why so many of these mothers and fathers believe they can’t discuss their fears and concerns with their own children, therapists, doctors, friends, andrelatives.
LEAVING PORTLAND
Leaving Portland. Portland, Oregon, has been the most politically violent city in the United States since Donald Trump was elected in 2016. Just a few days after the result, a peaceful protest against the incoming president turned into a riot when anarchists broke off from the main group and rampaged through the Pearl District, a renovatedSoHo
THE MYTH OF PERVASIVE MISOGYNY The Myth of Pervasive Misogyny. written by Cory Clark and Bo Winegard. Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. ~Timothy Leary. Many feminists and progressives argue that the West is plagued by pervasive misogyny. In fact, this claim is made with such frequency, and is so rarely challenged, that it has become part of the Left’s THE CAMPAIGN OF LIES AGAINST JOURNALIST JESSE SINGAL—AND The Campaign of Lies Against Journalist Jesse Singal—And Why It Matters. written by Jonathan Kay. One of the odd-seeming aspects of progressive cancel culture is that many of the figures targeted by mobs aren’t especially conservative in their views. Rather, the victims tend to be heterodox liberals who simply offer a dissentingopinion on
GILEAD RESEMBLES AN ISLAMIC THEOCRACY, NOT TRUMP’S AMERICA Gilead Resembles an Islamic Theocracy, not Trump’s America. written by Phyllis Chesler. Margaret Atwood, whose work I have long admired, is now being hailed as a prophet. It is quite the phenomenon. According to the pundits, Atwood’s 1985 work, The Handmaid’s Tale, which Mary McCarthy once savaged, and the recently-published 2019sequel
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The chorus goes like this: There’s a hope that’s waiting for you in the dark, You should know you’re beautiful just the way you are, And you don’t have to change a thing, The world could change its heart, No scars to your beautiful, We’re stars and we’rebeautiful.
DENYING THE NEUROSCIENCE OF SEX DIFFERENCES Denying the Neuroscience of Sex Differences. A review of The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain, by Gina Rippon. The Bodley Head Ltd (March 2019). Imagine your response to picking up a copy of the leading scientific journal Nature and reading the headline: “The myth that evolution applies to humans UNCONSCIOUS BIAS TRAINING AS A MANAGEMENT TOOL Unconscious Bias Training as a Management Tool. written by Sebastian Cesario. A number of social scientists have pointed to a paucity of good evidence that such ‘unconscious bias training’ is effective in achieving its stated aims. However, I have little doubt that Starbucks’ new initiative will be effective, because it is clear tome
QUILLETTE – FREE THOUGHT LIVESABOUTDONATEFREE THOUGHT LIVESUBSCRIBE Portland, Oregon, has been the most politically violent city in the United States since Donald Trump was elected in 2016. Just a few days after the result, a peaceful protest against the incoming president turned into a riot when anarchists broke off from the main group and rampaged through the Pearl District, a renovated SoHo-like neighborhood adjacent to downtown packed with art galleries ANGUS FOX – QUILLETTE Published by Angus Fox. What follows is the second instalment of When Sons Become Daughters, a multi-part Quillette series that explores how parents react when a son announces he wants to be a girl—and explains why so many of these mothers and fathers believe they can’t discuss their fears and concerns with their own children, therapists LITERATURE – QUILLETTE Suddenly, time-loop stories seem to be everywhere. This month Hulu began streaming director Joe Carnahan’s new sci-fi action film Boss Level, the tale of a soldier in the near future who wakes up every morning only to relive the day of his death. Carnahan has describedthe film as
EREC SMITH – QUILLETTE Towards Practical Empowerment. Published by Erec Smith. The following critique of anti-racism is intended to empower people of color and stave off the modes of disempowerment I see in my field of rhetorical studies. Rhetorical studies examines persuasion in all its forms, but just like everyone else, rhetoricians have a hard time communicating PODCAST #150: HELEN PLUCKROSE ON THE ROLE OF POSTMODERNISM Quillette founder Claire Lehmann speaks with Cynical Theories co-author (and Grievance Studies Hoax collaborator) Helen Pluckrose about the influence of postmodern ideas in the formulation of the latest iterations of Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory, and other “intersectional” doctrines.LEAVING PORTLAND
Leaving Portland. Portland, Oregon, has been the most politically violent city in the United States since Donald Trump was elected in 2016. Just a few days after the result, a peaceful protest against the incoming president turned into a riot when anarchists broke off from the main group and rampaged through the Pearl District, a renovatedSoHo
LESBIANS AREN’T ATTRACTED TO A FEMALE ‘GENDER IDENTITY This is assumed to have consequences for sexual-orientation concepts such as gay, straight, lesbian, and so on. A “lesbian” is now understood as anyone with a female gender identity attracted to others with female gender identities. This can include biological males as lesbians, as long as they have a female gender identity. COVID-19 AND LIBERALISM On the other hand, devising a liberal response to COVID-19 by no means mandates the disastrous “ mitigation strategy ” that has been attempted—and often subsequently abandoned —by some governments. Being a liberal during a crisis doesn’t—and mustn’t—mean dooming 60 — 70 percent of your population to near-guaranteedinfection.
WHEN SONS BECOME DAUGHTERS: PARENTS OF TRANSITIONING BOYS What follows is the introductory instalment of When Sons Become Daughters, a multi-part Quillette series that explores how parents react when a son announces he wants to be a girl—and explains why so many of these mothers and fathers believe they can’t discuss their fears and concerns with their own children, therapists, doctors, friends, and relatives. COVID HAS FORCED TEACHERS TO CONFRONT LONGSTANDING The halls are eerily silent. No slamming lockers, talkative teens, or stairwell make-out sessions. Right about now, I’d gladly take a student yelling an obscenity in the hallway—even one directed a QUILLETTE – FREE THOUGHT LIVESABOUTDONATEFREE THOUGHT LIVESUBSCRIBE Portland, Oregon, has been the most politically violent city in the United States since Donald Trump was elected in 2016. Just a few days after the result, a peaceful protest against the incoming president turned into a riot when anarchists broke off from the main group and rampaged through the Pearl District, a renovated SoHo-like neighborhood adjacent to downtown packed with art galleries ANGUS FOX – QUILLETTE Published by Angus Fox. What follows is the second instalment of When Sons Become Daughters, a multi-part Quillette series that explores how parents react when a son announces he wants to be a girl—and explains why so many of these mothers and fathers believe they can’t discuss their fears and concerns with their own children, therapists LITERATURE – QUILLETTE Suddenly, time-loop stories seem to be everywhere. This month Hulu began streaming director Joe Carnahan’s new sci-fi action film Boss Level, the tale of a soldier in the near future who wakes up every morning only to relive the day of his death. Carnahan has describedthe film as
EREC SMITH – QUILLETTE Towards Practical Empowerment. Published by Erec Smith. The following critique of anti-racism is intended to empower people of color and stave off the modes of disempowerment I see in my field of rhetorical studies. Rhetorical studies examines persuasion in all its forms, but just like everyone else, rhetoricians have a hard time communicating PODCAST #150: HELEN PLUCKROSE ON THE ROLE OF POSTMODERNISM Quillette founder Claire Lehmann speaks with Cynical Theories co-author (and Grievance Studies Hoax collaborator) Helen Pluckrose about the influence of postmodern ideas in the formulation of the latest iterations of Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory, and other “intersectional” doctrines.LEAVING PORTLAND
Leaving Portland. Portland, Oregon, has been the most politically violent city in the United States since Donald Trump was elected in 2016. Just a few days after the result, a peaceful protest against the incoming president turned into a riot when anarchists broke off from the main group and rampaged through the Pearl District, a renovatedSoHo
LESBIANS AREN’T ATTRACTED TO A FEMALE ‘GENDER IDENTITY This is assumed to have consequences for sexual-orientation concepts such as gay, straight, lesbian, and so on. A “lesbian” is now understood as anyone with a female gender identity attracted to others with female gender identities. This can include biological males as lesbians, as long as they have a female gender identity. COVID-19 AND LIBERALISM On the other hand, devising a liberal response to COVID-19 by no means mandates the disastrous “ mitigation strategy ” that has been attempted—and often subsequently abandoned —by some governments. Being a liberal during a crisis doesn’t—and mustn’t—mean dooming 60 — 70 percent of your population to near-guaranteedinfection.
WHEN SONS BECOME DAUGHTERS: PARENTS OF TRANSITIONING BOYS What follows is the introductory instalment of When Sons Become Daughters, a multi-part Quillette series that explores how parents react when a son announces he wants to be a girl—and explains why so many of these mothers and fathers believe they can’t discuss their fears and concerns with their own children, therapists, doctors, friends, and relatives. COVID HAS FORCED TEACHERS TO CONFRONT LONGSTANDING The halls are eerily silent. No slamming lockers, talkative teens, or stairwell make-out sessions. Right about now, I’d gladly take a student yelling an obscenity in the hallway—even one directed a IN DEFENSE OF THE UNIVERSAL VALUES OF SCIENCE The progress of modern science has been a truly global phenomenon, a fact worth celebrating, just as the technological fruits of science have, to varying degrees, impacted the lives of everyone on the globe. Scientific breakthroughs have paid THE ARTIST AND THE CENSOR Only proponents of the concept of art for art’s sake always can be depended on to oppose the censorship of art. The most robust argument against censorship lies not in appeals to Enlightenment values, which are subject to time, but in art itself. Those who believe art neverrequires external
LIVED EXPERIENCES AREN’T SPECIAL Some time ago I found myself in the middle of a discussion about race relations and minority experiences. When it was my chance to speak, I mentioned some statistical data that appeared to challenge the common narrative that racism is widespread and UNDERSTANDING THE UNIDENTIFIED An advantage of having worked in the skeptical business for 30 years is institutional memory that enables me to place current claims and controversies into historical context. So, when the New York Times published their article on “The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program” in December 2017, and CBS’s 60 Minutes reported that “UFOs Regularly Spotted in Restricted U.S. Airspace” in WHEN SONS BECOME DAUGHTERS, PART VI: ASEXUALITY 1 day ago · What follows is the sixth instalment of When Sons Become Daughters, a seven-part Quillette series that explores how parents react when a son announces he wants to be a girl—and explains why so many of these mothers and fathers believe they can’t discuss their fears and concerns with their own children, therapists, doctors, friends, and relatives. LESBIANS AREN’T ATTRACTED TO A FEMALE ‘GENDER IDENTITY This is assumed to have consequences for sexual-orientation concepts such as gay, straight, lesbian, and so on. A “lesbian” is now understood as anyone with a female gender identity attracted to others with female gender identities. This can include biological males as lesbians, as long as they have a female gender identity. CANCELLING COMEDIANS WHILE THE WORLD BURNS—A REVIEW Review of Cancelling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique of the Contemporary Left by Ben Burgis. Zero Books, 136 pages (May 2021). In a chapter dealing with Antifa and the “pathologies of powerlessness,” Burgis warns that fistfights at rallies held by marginal white supremacist groups IDENTITY AND THE SELF IN ‘HAMLET’ It is one that resonates with our current cultural moment of gender identities, defined as “the deep and intimate feeling a person has of themselves.” “O that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw and resolve itself into a dew,” Hamlet says in his first soliloquy (1.2.129–30). Hamlet is asking for a release from his“solid
2020 – PAGE 35 – QUILLETTE A review of How Innovation Works and How it Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley, Harper (May 19th, 2020), 416 pages. If you are reading this, then you are taking advantage of the global information network we call the Internet and a piece of electronic hardware known as acomputer.
RECENT – PAGE 41 – QUILLETTE In a recent article, Matt McManus drew a valuable distinction between postmodern culture and postmodern philosophy. Postmodern culture, he argued, was first theorized by neo-Marxists to refer to what they saw as a new phase of capitalism, characterized by heightened skepticism and a preoccupation with subjectivity. QUILLETTE – FREE THOUGHT LIVESABOUTDONATEFREE THOUGHT LIVESUBSCRIBE Portland, Oregon, has been the most politically violent city in the United States since Donald Trump was elected in 2016. Just a few days after the result, a peaceful protest against the incoming president turned into a riot when anarchists broke off from the main group and rampaged through the Pearl District, a renovated SoHo-like neighborhood adjacent to downtown packed with art galleries FEATURES – QUILLETTE The Gathering Resistance to the Stigmatisation of Masculinity. Published by Hannah Gal. On the face of it, Brilliant Bob is an unremarkable character for a children’s book—a playful boy who loves football and embarks upon fun adventures with his friends Dazzling Dave, Genuine George, and Superboy Sam. ANGUS FOX – QUILLETTE Published by Angus Fox. What follows is the second instalment of When Sons Become Daughters, a multi-part Quillette series that explores how parents react when a son announces he wants to be a girl—and explains why so many of these mothers and fathers believe they can’t discuss their fears and concerns with their own children, therapists LITERATURE – QUILLETTE Suddenly, time-loop stories seem to be everywhere. This month Hulu began streaming director Joe Carnahan’s new sci-fi action film Boss Level, the tale of a soldier in the near future who wakes up every morning only to relive the day of his death. Carnahan has describedthe film as
EREC SMITH – QUILLETTE Towards Practical Empowerment. Published by Erec Smith. The following critique of anti-racism is intended to empower people of color and stave off the modes of disempowerment I see in my field of rhetorical studies. Rhetorical studies examines persuasion in all its forms, but just like everyone else, rhetoricians have a hard time communicatingLEAVING PORTLAND
Leaving Portland. Portland, Oregon, has been the most politically violent city in the United States since Donald Trump was elected in 2016. Just a few days after the result, a peaceful protest against the incoming president turned into a riot when anarchists broke off from the main group and rampaged through the Pearl District, a renovatedSoHo
WHAT IS THIS THING YOU CALL ‘SOCIAL JUSTICE’? Seen by the lights of 2019, the episode’s story arc is eerie to say the least. Riker might as well have tried to rescue an activist grad student from Evergreen State. The very best Star Trek episode that tackles social justice (as we would now call it) is the 1991 Next Generation episode The Drumhead. THE RANKS OF GENDER DETRANSITIONERS ARE GROWING. WE NEED A recent NBC News report warned that media coverage of detransitioners—formerly transgender individuals seeking to return to the gender associated with their biological sex—is misleading and potentially harmful. “No one disputes that transition regret does exist,” author Liam Knox writes. “However, trans advocates say some of the recent coverage around the topic portrays UNCONSCIOUS BIAS TRAINING AS A MANAGEMENT TOOL Unconscious Bias Training as a Management Tool. written by Sebastian Cesario. A number of social scientists have pointed to a paucity of good evidence that such ‘unconscious bias training’ is effective in achieving its stated aims. However, I have little doubt that Starbucks’ new initiative will be effective, because it is clear tome
THE POLITICALLY HOMELESS LIFE OF A GAY CONSERVATIVE I knew I was gay when I was eight years old, at least subconsciously. That was the first time I had that feeling, the one deep in my chest that took me decades to understand, for a boy named Ben at summer camp, and his deep blue eyes. QUILLETTE – FREE THOUGHT LIVESABOUTDONATEFREE THOUGHT LIVESUBSCRIBE Portland, Oregon, has been the most politically violent city in the United States since Donald Trump was elected in 2016. Just a few days after the result, a peaceful protest against the incoming president turned into a riot when anarchists broke off from the main group and rampaged through the Pearl District, a renovated SoHo-like neighborhood adjacent to downtown packed with art galleries FEATURES – QUILLETTE The Gathering Resistance to the Stigmatisation of Masculinity. Published by Hannah Gal. On the face of it, Brilliant Bob is an unremarkable character for a children’s book—a playful boy who loves football and embarks upon fun adventures with his friends Dazzling Dave, Genuine George, and Superboy Sam. ANGUS FOX – QUILLETTE Published by Angus Fox. What follows is the second instalment of When Sons Become Daughters, a multi-part Quillette series that explores how parents react when a son announces he wants to be a girl—and explains why so many of these mothers and fathers believe they can’t discuss their fears and concerns with their own children, therapists LITERATURE – QUILLETTE Suddenly, time-loop stories seem to be everywhere. This month Hulu began streaming director Joe Carnahan’s new sci-fi action film Boss Level, the tale of a soldier in the near future who wakes up every morning only to relive the day of his death. Carnahan has describedthe film as
EREC SMITH – QUILLETTE Towards Practical Empowerment. Published by Erec Smith. The following critique of anti-racism is intended to empower people of color and stave off the modes of disempowerment I see in my field of rhetorical studies. Rhetorical studies examines persuasion in all its forms, but just like everyone else, rhetoricians have a hard time communicatingLEAVING PORTLAND
Leaving Portland. Portland, Oregon, has been the most politically violent city in the United States since Donald Trump was elected in 2016. Just a few days after the result, a peaceful protest against the incoming president turned into a riot when anarchists broke off from the main group and rampaged through the Pearl District, a renovatedSoHo
WHAT IS THIS THING YOU CALL ‘SOCIAL JUSTICE’? Seen by the lights of 2019, the episode’s story arc is eerie to say the least. Riker might as well have tried to rescue an activist grad student from Evergreen State. The very best Star Trek episode that tackles social justice (as we would now call it) is the 1991 Next Generation episode The Drumhead. THE RANKS OF GENDER DETRANSITIONERS ARE GROWING. WE NEED A recent NBC News report warned that media coverage of detransitioners—formerly transgender individuals seeking to return to the gender associated with their biological sex—is misleading and potentially harmful. “No one disputes that transition regret does exist,” author Liam Knox writes. “However, trans advocates say some of the recent coverage around the topic portrays UNCONSCIOUS BIAS TRAINING AS A MANAGEMENT TOOL Unconscious Bias Training as a Management Tool. written by Sebastian Cesario. A number of social scientists have pointed to a paucity of good evidence that such ‘unconscious bias training’ is effective in achieving its stated aims. However, I have little doubt that Starbucks’ new initiative will be effective, because it is clear tome
THE POLITICALLY HOMELESS LIFE OF A GAY CONSERVATIVE I knew I was gay when I was eight years old, at least subconsciously. That was the first time I had that feeling, the one deep in my chest that took me decades to understand, for a boy named Ben at summer camp, and his deep blue eyes. WINNERS AND LOSERS: THE GLOBAL ECONOMY AFTER COVID The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the world economy in ways that will be debated by pundits and future historians for decades to come. Yet, as hard as it is to predict a disrupted future accurately, the pandemic (not to mention its probable successors) looks likely to produce clear economic winners and losers.The top digital companies—Amazon, Apple, Tencent, Microsoft, Google, Facebook VACCINE HESITANCY AND THE PARADOX OF CHOICE A recent survey revealed that 29 percent of Australians said they were not likely to get a COVID vaccine. Even as a new outbreak had emerged in Melbourne, vaccination hubs were not being utilised anywhere near their capacity. Vaccine hesitancy appears to be the latest COVID related challenge for health authorities in Australia.. Since several vaccines from major biotechnology companies have NO, CRITICAL RACE THEORY ISN’T A NEW CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT Critical Race Theory has become a prominent subject in American political discourse. Several state legislatures have advanced measures aimed at banning it from public schools, on the basis that its rigid moral categorization of people as either “privileged” or “oppressed” is offensive and even racist. Yet supporters argue that Critical Race Theory is vital to the project of eliminating THE SAD TRUTH ABOUT TRADITIONAL ENVIRONMENTALISM I do understand the NRDC’s stance—since I once fell for scaremongering and conspiracy theories regarding nuclear power myself. I even protested against it.I believed that nuclear waste is unmanageable and poses a threat to life, and that radiation warrantsthe
PODCAST – QUILLETTE Podcast 143: Daphne Merkin on the Baseless Abuse Claims Against Woody Allen—And Why The Media Refuses to Let Them Die. Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks to Daphne Merkin about HBO’s highly torqued documentary, Allen v. Farrow, and the dubious claims it contains. Merkin, who wrote a widely discussed New York Magazine article about UNDERSTANDING THE UNIDENTIFIED An advantage of having worked in the skeptical business for 30 years is institutional memory that enables me to place current claims and controversies into historical context. So, when the New York Times published their article on “The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program” in December 2017, and CBS’s 60 Minutes reported that “UFOs Regularly Spotted in Restricted U.S. Airspace” in IN DEFENSE OF THE UNIVERSAL VALUES OF SCIENCE The progress of modern science has been a truly global phenomenon, a fact worth celebrating, just as the technological fruits of science have, to varying degrees, impacted the lives of everyone on the globe. Scientific breakthroughs have paid WHEN SONS BECOME DAUGHTERS, PART VI: ASEXUALITY 18 hours ago · What follows is the sixth instalment of When Sons Become Daughters, a seven-part Quillette series that explores how parents react when a son announces he wants to be a girl—and explains why so many of these mothers and fathers believe they can’t discuss their fears and concerns with their own children, therapists, doctors, friends, and relatives. POLITICS – QUILLETTE The Gathering Resistance to the Stigmatisation of Masculinity. Published by Hannah Gal. On the face of it, Brilliant Bob is an unremarkable character for a children’s book—a playful boy who loves football and embarks upon fun adventures with his friends Dazzling Dave, Genuine George, and Superboy Sam. LESBIANS AREN’T ATTRACTED TO A FEMALE ‘GENDER IDENTITY This is assumed to have consequences for sexual-orientation concepts such as gay, straight, lesbian, and so on. A “lesbian” is now understood as anyone with a female gender identity attracted to others with female gender identities. This can include biological males as lesbians, as long as they have a female gender identity.* Home
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NARRATED: MY MISSPENT YEARS OF CONSPIRACISM Published by Quillette Magazine Greg Ellis reads My Misspent Years of Conspiracism, Jamie Palmer’s essay about his obsession with the JFK assassination. It was published in Quillette on 22nd November 2018.November 22, 2019
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WHY UBI OUGHT TO APPEAL TO CONSERVATIVES Published by Cody Kommers Republicans are traditionally hostile to what they call government “hand-outs.” This is not because they believe people shouldn’t get what they need. Rather, conservatives believe that people shouldget...
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RELIGIOUS PROGRESSIVISM Published by Colin Turfus Almost 40 years ago I read Nikolai Berdyaev’s The Russian Revolution, in which he makes the case that Soviet Communism was essentially a religion in the mould of Christianity,...November 20, 2019
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I was bewildered when I encountered a new social class at Yale four years ago: the luxury belief class. My confusion wasn’t surprising given my unusual background. When I was two years old, my mother was addicted to drugs and my father abandoned us. I grew up in multiple foster homes, was then adopted into a series of broken homes, and thenexperienced a...
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PODCAST 64: MARK HALPERIN ON HOW TO BEAT TRUMP (IT WON’T BE EASY) Veteran Political Pundit Mark Halperin talks to Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay about his new book, How to Beat Trump. He thinks it’s going tobe very difficult.
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